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> No good can come of it ever. Now that is trivially untrue, see the good work Bill Gates has done on Polio. Of course it's plausible for the existence of peo
by concordDance 3y ago
> No good can come of it ever.
Now that is trivially untrue, see the good work Bill Gates has done on Polio.
Of course it's plausible for the existence of people with that level of power to be a detriment on average, but it never being positive seems obviously wrong.
- 0xBDB 3y agoGates isn't the only one. John D. Rockefeller basically eradicated hookworm in the American South, and was instrumental in funding a significant number of the country's historically Black colleges and universities, among many other things. Andrew Carnegie all but invented the public library in America (and some in the UK). Herbert Hoover fed Belgium and Russia after the First World War. If the government had taken their money in tax it could have done some of these things, but I know of no reason to think it would have, or that it would have done them efficiently if so.